On Liberty

ISBN-13: 9780141046945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 192 str.

Mill John Stuart

Opis

Since its first publication in 1859, few works of political philosophy have provoked such continuous controversy as Mill's 'On Liberty', a passionate argument on behalf of freedom of self-expression. This edition contains an introduction which puts the work in its biographical and political context.

O autorze

John Stuart Mill was born in London in 1806. He became a leading philosophical radical, active as a propagandist in their intellectual and reforming pursuits. In 1826, he began to rethink his stance and examine alternative positions offered by Coleridge and Carlyle. His major works include ON LIBERTY, UTILITARIANISM and THE SUBJUGATION OF WOMEN